Difference between revisions of "Manufacturability and Producibility"

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Lead Authors: Dick Fairley, Kevin Forsberg, Contributing Authors: Paul Phister, Alice Squires, Richard Turner

Manufacturability and producibility is an engineering specialty. The machines and processes used to build a system must be architected and designed. A systems engineering approach to manufacturing and production is necessary because manufacturing equipment and processes can sometimes cost more than the system being built (Maier and Rechtin 2009). Manufacturability and producibility can be a discriminator between competing system solution concepts and therefore must be considered early in the study period, as well as during the maturing of the final design solution.

Overview

The system being built might be intended to be one-of-a-kind or to be reproduced multiple times. The manufacturing system differs for each of these situations and is tied to the type of system being built. For example, the manufacture of a single-board computer would be vastly different from the manufacture of an automobile. Production involves the repeated building of the designed system. Multiple production cycles require the consideration of production machine maintenance and downtime.

Manufacturing and production engineering involve similar systems engineering processes specifically tailored to the building of the system. Manufacturability and producibility are the key attributes of a system that determine the ease of manufacturing and production. While manufacturability is simply the ease of manufacture, producibility also encompasses other dimensions of the production task, including packaging and shipping. Both these attributes can be improved by incorporating proper design decisions that take into account the entire system life cycle (Blanchard and Fabrycky 2010).

References

Works Cited

Maier, M. and E. Rechtin. 2009. The Art of Systems Architecting, 3rd Ed. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.

Blanchard, B.S. and W.J. Fabrycky. 2010. Systems Engineering and Analysis, 5th Ed. Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Englwood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall.

Primary References

None.

Additional References

Anderson, D. 2010. Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production. Cambria, CA, USA: CIM Press.

Boothroyd, G., P. Dewhurst, and W. Knight. 2010. Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly. 3rd Ed. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. A short video explaining their approach is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b29TW05o0o, Accessed April 2, 2021.

Bralla, J. 1998. Design for Manufacturability Handbook. New York, NY, USA: McGraw Hill Professional.

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-'''Please change the title of this article to Manufacturability and Produceability (NOTE: "Producibility" is the correct spelling. K Forsberg)
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+'''''Lead Authors:''''' ''Dick Fairley, Kevin Forsberg'', '''''Contributing Authors:''''' ''Paul Phister, Alice Squires, Richard Turner''
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+Manufacturability and producibility is an engineering specialty. The machines and processes used to build a system must be architected and designed.  A systems engineering approach to manufacturing and production is necessary because manufacturing equipment and processes can sometimes cost more than the system being built (Maier and Rechtin 2009).  Manufacturability and producibility can be a discriminator between competing system solution concepts and therefore must be considered early in the study period, as well as during the maturing of the final design solution.
+==Overview==
+The system being built might be intended to be one-of-a-kind or to be reproduced multiple times. The manufacturing system differs for each of these situations and is tied to the type of system being built. For example, the manufacture of a single-board computer would be vastly different from the manufacture of an automobile. Production involves the repeated building of the designed system. Multiple production cycles require the consideration of production machine maintenance and downtime.
-Manufacturability and Produceability is an engineering specialty. The machines and processes used to build a system must be architected and designed. Manufacturing equipment and processes can sometimes cost more than the system being built, and so a systems engineering approach to manufacturing and production is necessary (Maier and Rechtin 2002).
+Manufacturing and production engineering involve similar systems engineering processes specifically tailored to the building of the system. Manufacturability and producibility are the key attributes of a system that determine the ease of manufacturing and production. While manufacturability is simply the ease of manufacture, producibility also encompasses other dimensions of the production task, including packaging and shipping. Both these attributes can be improved by incorporating proper design decisions that take into account the entire system life cycle (Blanchard and Fabrycky 2010).
-The system being built might be a one-of-a-kind, or it might be intended to be reproduced multiple times. The manufacturing system is different for each of these situations and is tied to the type of system being built. For example, the manufacture of a single board computer would be vastly different from the manufacture of an automobile.
+===References===
+===Works Cited===
+Maier, M. and E. Rechtin. 2009. ''The Art of Systems Architecting,'' 3rd Ed. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
-Production involves the repeated building of the designed system. Multiple production cycles require the consideration of production machine maintenance and downtime. Manufacturing and Production engineering involves similar systems engineering processes specifically tailored to the building of the system.
+Blanchard, B.S. and W.J. Fabrycky. 2010. ''Systems Engineering and Analysis,'' 5th Ed. Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Englwood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall.
-Manufacturability and produceibility are the key attributes of a system that determine the ease of manufacturing and production. While manufacturability is simply the ease of manufacture, producibility also encompasses other dimensions of the production task, including packaging and shipping. Both these attributes can be improved by incorporating proper design decisions that take into account the entire system life cycle (Blanchard and Fabrycky 2005).  See Table 25 for a list of manufacturing and production elements.
-==References==
-Please make sure all references are listed alphabetically and are formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed). See the [http://www.bkcase.org/fileadmin/bkcase/files/Wiki_Files__for_linking_/BKCASE_Reference_Guidance.pdf BKCASE Reference Guidance] for additional information.
-===Citations===
-List all references cited in the article.  Note:  SEBoK 0.5 uses Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed). See the [http://www.bkcase.org/fileadmin/bkcase/files/Wiki_Files__for_linking_/BKCASE_Reference_Guidance.pdf BKCASE Reference Guidance] for additional information.
 ===Primary References===
-All primary references should be listed in alphabetical order.  Remember to identify primary references by creating an internal link using the ‘’’reference title only’’’ ([[title]]).  Please do not include version numbers in the links.
+None.
 ===Additional References===
-All additional references should be listed in alphabetical order.
+Anderson, D.  2010. ''Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production.'' Cambria, CA, USA: CIM Press.
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+Boothroyd, G., P. Dewhurst, and W. Knight. 2010. ''Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly.'' 3rd Ed. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.  A short video explaining their approach is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b29TW05o0o, Accessed April 2, 2021.
-This article is well written, and for its purpose here, it is about the right length. What it lacks is a stronger tie to Systems Engineering. Perhaps stating that "Manufacturability and Producibility" can be a discriminator between competing system solution concepts, and so need to be considered early in the study period, as well as during the maturing of the final design solution."
+Bralla, J. 1998. ''Design for Manufacturability Handbook.'' New York, NY, USA: McGraw Hill Professional.
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-The references need to be spelled out. in the reference section. Also, can permission be obtained to reproduce Table 25 from whatever source (the reader is left to guess if it is in Blanchard and Fabrycky's book). It would be useful to see a little more detail here.
+<center>[[Human Systems Integration|< Previous Article]] | [[Systems Engineering and Quality Attributes|Parent Article]] | [[System Affordability|Next Article >]]</center>
-There are no links to the glossary, or anything else.
+<center>'''SEBoK v. 2.9, released 20 November 2023'''</center>
-The article is close to ready for SEBoK 0.5. The cleanup should not take too long. The spelling (apart from the request to change "Producibility" to "Produceability") seems good.
+[[Category:Part 6]]
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+[[Category:Systems Engineering and Quality Attributes]]